TORONTO -- Blue Jays fans waited 32 years to let loose cheering a World Series home run. They got to do it three times.

Addison Barger launched the first pinch-hit grand slam in Fall Classic history, Alejandro Kirk followed with a two-run homer in a nine-run sixth inning and Toronto overwhelmed the defending champion Dodgers 11-4 in Friday night's opener.

"Just madness," Barger said of the third-highest-scoring inning in Series annals.

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Daulton Varsho, limited by injuries to 71 games during the season, started Toronto's comeback from a 2-0 deficit with a two-run drive in the fourth off two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell.

The longball barrage was fitting as the Fall Classic returned to Toronto for the first time sin

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